Date
Hour
Place
04/08
18:00
THE SMALL CINEMA
Lemonade
reż|dir Ioana Uricaru | RO, CA, DE, SE | 2018 | 88 min
prod|pro Cristian Mungiu, Yanick Létourneau, Eike Goreczka, Christoph Kukula, Sean Wheelan, Anthony Muir scen|wr Ioana Uricaru, Tatiana Ionascu zdj|ph Friede Clausz muz|mus Olivier Alary mon|ed Mircea Olteanu ob|cast Mălina Manovici, Steve Bacic, Dylan Scott Smith, Milan Hurduc, Ruxandra Maniu dys|dis Pluto films
DESCRIPTION
While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Drago, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. During the process of getting a green card Mara is faced with abuses of power on every level and forced to answer a dark question about herself – how far would you go to get what you want?
AWARDS
2018 IFF Berlin – Best Debut Film Nomination, Best “Panorama” Audience Award NominationDIRECTOR
Ioana Uricaru is a director, screenwriter, and Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College. Her film criticism and reviews have appeared in Romanian and international newspapers and journals. Uricaru’s films have been included in the official selections at, among others, Cannes (2009), Sundance (2011), and the American Film Institute (2007). She co-directed the omnibus “Tales from the Golden Age” (2009), distributed commercially in over 30 countries. Her first feature project as a writer and director is “Lemonade”, which she calls a “European take on the American Dream”. FILMOGRAPHY
2018 Lemonade|Lemonade2011 Stopover|Stopover
2009 Amintiri din epoca de aur|Opowieści złotego wieku|Tales From the Golden Age
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